Boardgames, Card Games, Gaming
Adding Elysium to the Grand Raffle. Prize chest is now worth around €160 or so. Roll up Roll up!
Oh and a super suggestion from a keen gamer. Each person drawn out of the hat will get a choice of which prize they take from the fund.
Get your order in now, PM me on Facebook and take advantage of the double ticket offer open until Friday.
Huzzah!
Vic
Ok I’m cheating because we’ve never really done it before, BUT, since discovering the really natty projector at Knavekids my immediate second thought for it’s use was DIPLOMACY! I reckon this could go down as something Knavecon will be remembered for
Diplomacy is a game you need to play at least once in your life, then play it again. Everyone remembers their first time playing it. Some hold grudges about something that may have happened some years ago, possibly near Japan, it doesn’t matter. What matters is you really need to play this game and you’re going to get a chance to play it at Knavecon… I’ll teach you the rules (I DO know the rules), I’ll GM the game. I’ll look after you and whether you’ve played it or not… you’ll leave a different person. See you then
Huzzah!
Vic
Knavecon are delighted to support the soon to be open Board House Cafe in Dublin and their Charity Catan Event.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1446670008970985/
Best of luck guys!
Vic
Ever watch a football final where it comes down to Penalties? It’s not so much about the ones that go in, it’s about the ones that are missed. I felt the same about Codenames which I got to see played out a number of times at KnaveKids last weekend with a variety of players. Missing a clue was fatal.
The games is a pretty straight forward party game with a nice theme. It was played at the con with a variety of younger and older gamers so it got a really good workout.
The game is played out on a randomly selected grid of 5×5 cards with single words on each. The Teams each elect one of their own as a spy master and they both stand at the opposite ends of the table and view a randomly picked card showing which words on the grid relate to the Blue Team and which related to the Red Team.
The first player to start has to get their team to reveal 9, the second 8.
The spymaster looks at the grid and calls out a word that related to one or more of the words on the cards they want their team to pick. So for example they might say “Transport” and hope their team are clever enough to pick “Car” and “Road” on the grid.
The spymasters can only use one word clues and use none of the words on the grid. If the team of guessers picks one of the agents correctly they get another go or can pass and it hops back and forth like so until the requisite amount are uncovered or the assasin is uncovered which ends the round early.
it’s simple fun, there’s a large variety of double sided cards so you’re unlikely to play the same list twice. I liked it. It was quick and simple and perfect for the age group at the convention.
If you’re looking for a simple team game that anyone can play with a nice theme, you won’t go far wrong with this
Huzzah!
as we Spymasters often say
Vic
But above all…. he played the part of the Evil Dr Victor Gannon
Huzzah!
Vic
I’m started to get used to games playing out in completely unexpected ways. Werewolf is usually a game of Hang a village, wolves kill someone, hang a village, wolves kill someone, hang a wolf if you’re lucky….
Not so the current game of werewolf. 21 souls wander around in their best Tescos PJs at all hours of the night unperturbed by the possibility of being eaten alive by wolves. any why you may ask?
Well for the first time in the history of any games of this I’ve ever played, the wolves are being wiped out systematically.
First night : Wolves don’t succeed in eating anyone
Second Day : a Wolf is hung
Second Night : Wolves don’t succeed in eating anyone
Third Day : a Wolf is hung
Third Night : A wolf is eaten….
What the absolute heck is going on here? Don’t ask me I’m not a wolf
Huzzah!
Vic
I don’t think anyone expected to be playing Ladies and Gentlemen (well obviously the owner). It’s certainly different. Bought for a mere bagatelle at the Knavecon bring and buy it reared it’s Victorian head on Thursday last.
The game sees up to eight players (we had seven) working in groups to become the most talked about Gentleman or Lady in polite society come the big ball.
Teams consist of well to do gentlemen and their ladies and well me. I was the odd one out so my role in the game was …. well let me put it this way, I’d stand out at a wake…
Players score points by having the best dressed wife at the end of the game and can be boosted or undone by the look of the courtesan who is every gentleman’s friend. This is achieved by buying the best possible outfit for the aforementioned ladies
Outfits consit of hats, dresses, accesseries and an entourage of servants.
Each of the men folk each round dabble in the stock market which sees them picking resources from a collective pile to complete a set and earn money.
The ladies each of which run a shop stick a pile of cards face down with one face up showing various dresses, bags, hats etc and their cost. Ladies then secretly decide which shop to visit and fight it out black friday style for the choicest of items handing them to their male counterparts to either buy or reject. (pouting is mandartory). The courtesan can ask any of the men to buy goods for her but the men in doing so have to keep their wives sweet by buying them something of similar value.
The game ends after a number of rounds with the best dressed couple winning and the least generous types falling to the wayside.
It’s an Interesting game. Possibly not the best fit for a group of seven lads with schoolboy humour sensibilities
It’s a game that requires a few goes before a strategy would emerge and while I can’t say it was stupendous fun I reckon a few plays would make for quite the fight. I also think it would play better with a few actual women in the mix (possibly a real couristean as well)
I had not heard of this game until last Thur and it’s possible we may never play it again but I do feel strongly that I don’t feel strongly about it one way or the other. Once again it’s going to need more play before I can decide if I like it or not.
Huzzah! (as we ladies say)
Vic
Yes, this game is STILL going on.
Despite the best efforts of Austria and England, Russia and Turkey are still in the game acting as a nasty speed bump allowing Italy to do his dastardly work while England is distracted
The Monkey trap that is St Petersburg is still vexing Austria and England allowing Russia to continue to gad about like John Constantine with a deal with the devil.
Having incorrectly predicted whom would win I remain dear reader unable to predict what could happen next….
Huzzah!
Vic
Mark your calenders. The 30th of October will see the return of the most frustrating, nail biting, hair pulling, curse like a trooper, stupendous two player game of all time to the electronic world. Blood Bowl 2
Bloodbowl one is still a crackin game (if you can forgive the sometimes frustrating control system) but the new version is shaping up to be something special.
By November there will be a league, OH YES there will be a league and I’ll see you all on the pitch, hopefully face down
Huzzah!
Vic
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